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SMITPISONIAN INSTITUTION. 



UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



BULLETIN 



OF THE 



UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM, 



No. 4-7. 



THE FISHES 



NORTH AND MIDDLE AMERICA 



A DESCRIPTIVE CATALOGUE OF THE SPECIES OF FISH-LIKE VERTEBRATES FOUND IN THE 

 WATERS OF NORTH AMERICA, NORTH OF THE ISTHMUS OF PANAMA. 



BATID STARR JORDAN. Ph.D.. 



PRESIDENT OF THE LELAND STANFOKD JUNIOR INIVERSITY, 



AND 



BARTON WARREN EVERMANX. Ph. D., 



ICIITHVULOGIST OF THE UNITED STATES FISH COMMISSION. 



PART I. 



WASHINGTON: 



GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE. 

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